SPDX identifiers in the kernel
SPDX identifiers in the kernel
Posted Nov 17, 2017 19:17 UTC (Fri) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)Parent article: SPDX identifiers in the kernel
I'm having trouble understanding who exactly this is useful to.
Anything in the kernel source tree should be available under GPLv2. So I guess the only reason you'd care about the license on individual files is if you want to incorporate some portion into a more liberally-licensed project? Are there that many of those projects? I must be missing something.
Posted Nov 17, 2017 19:55 UTC (Fri)
by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452)
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SPDX identifiers in the kernel
Unless I'm mistaken the BSDs regularly pull in the DRM subsystem and certain drivers from Linux that happen to be dual-licensed.